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Best Coding AI tools

33 coding tools, ranked by our score. Our top pick is Claude, followed by Cursor and Claude Code.

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33 coding tools, ranked by our score. Our top pick is Claude, followed by Cursor and Claude Code. If you want to start without paying, look at Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot. Every score is our own judgement of how well a tool does the job, and you can read how we score on the blog.

  1. Claude: An AI assistant that is great at writing, reading long documents and helping with code. Freemium. Solthar Score 99/100.
  2. Cursor: A code editor with AI built in. It suggests and writes code as you work. Freemium. Solthar Score 97/100.
  3. Claude Code: Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent that edits files and runs commands directly. Paid. Solthar Score 95/100.
  4. GitHub Copilot: The autocomplete that started the AI-coding era, now with chat and agents in your IDE. Freemium. Solthar Score 95/100.
  5. DeepSeek: Open, remarkably capable reasoning models that upended the cost of frontier AI. Freemium. Solthar Score 94/100.
  6. Devin Desktop: An AI code editor from Cognition, formerly called Windsurf and Codeium. Run and review coding agents from one place. Freemium. Solthar Score 93/100.
  7. Mistral: Europe's open-weight model lab; Le Chat is a fast, private assistant for work and code. Freemium. Solthar Score 91/100.
  8. v0: Vercel's generative UI tool. Describe an interface and get production React + Tailwind. Freemium. Solthar Score 91/100.
  9. Replit: Browser IDE where the Agent builds, runs, and deploys full apps from a prompt. Freemium. Solthar Score 90/100.
  10. Codex: OpenAI's cloud software agent, working tasks in parallel sandboxes. Paid. Solthar Score 89/100.
  11. Devin: Autonomous AI software engineer that takes tickets and opens pull requests on its own. Paid. Solthar Score 88/100.
  12. Gemini CLI: Google's open-source terminal agent with a famously generous free allowance. Freemium. Solthar Score 87/100.
  13. Warp: A rebuilt terminal where you describe the command instead of remembering the flags. Freemium. Solthar Score 86/100.
  14. Cline: An open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that you point at any model. Free. Solthar Score 85/100.
  15. Tabnine: Privacy-first AI code completion that can run on your own servers. Now owned by Tricentis and sold through its sales team. Paid. Solthar Score 85/100.
  16. Zed: A fast native editor with collaborative editing and built-in AI. Freemium. Solthar Score 85/100.
  17. Amazon Q Developer: AWS-native coding assistant that knows your account and infrastructure. Freemium. Solthar Score 84/100.
  18. Augment Code: A coding assistant built specifically for very large, long-lived codebases. Paid. Solthar Score 84/100.
  19. Lovable UI: Turns a screenshot or prompt into production React components. Freemium. Solthar Score 84/100.
  20. Sourcegraph Cody: Answers questions using your whole codebase as context, not just the open file. Freemium. Solthar Score 84/100.

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